Borsalino, for most, means the best fedora hats worn by Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Antony Quinn, Alain Delon, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, Federico Fellini, and Paul Newman. Giuseppe Borsalino – nicknamed "u siur Pipen" (Master Joe) in the local dialect – was born in Pecetto di Valenza, in the province of Alessandria, Piedmont, in 1834. After starting as an errand boy then an apprentice in his home town, he found a job (more)